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Scientists have a handle on what happens to air pollution spewing from tailpipes and smokestacks in the summer when sunlight and moisture can quickly interact with and transform key pollutants. They know far less about what happens to those pollutants in the relative cold and dark of winter. But they have theories. To test them, a major six-week field campaign is underway out of NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, where a C-130 Hercules plane packed with custom, cutting-edge science instruments is flying at all hours of the day and night all along the Northeast urban corridor to sniff out, measure and track emissions plumes. Called WINTER15, for Wintertime Investigation of...

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Scientists have a handle on what happens to air pollution spewing from tailpipes and smokestacks in the summer when sunlight and moisture can quickly interact with and transform key pollutants.
They know far less about what happens to those pollutants in...

NEWPORT NEWS — It was the highest-profile piece of undeveloped land in the city — and the value of the 44 acres at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Oyster Point Road has plunged and soared with developer John R. Lawson's ability to negotiate a good...

It was the highest-profile piece of undeveloped land in the city — and the value of the 44 acres at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Oyster Point Road has plunged and soared with developer John R. Lawson's ability to negotiate a good price — and new...

A federal judge sentenced former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell to a year and a day in federal prison Friday, calling her case sad, tragic and puzzling.
U.S. District Court Judge James Spencer declared himself baffled by “the two Maureen...

Sometimes a big storm uncovers unexpected networks of neighborliness, as along the 200 block of LaSalle Avenue in Hampton on Tuesday.
Jeff Liscomb lives around the corner. He makes a living hanging gutters but knew that wasn't going to happen after the...

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council failed to take action Wednesday on a measure to protect deep-sea coral canyon ecosystems off the Atlantic coast from human activity, including Norfolk Canyon off Virginia.Council members meeting in Raleigh,...

NASA astronauts blasting off from Virginia? Tourists cruising into space and back again from Wallops Island?
It might sound like science fiction, but some state lawmakers took a baby step this week toward turning fiction into fact.
On Wednesday the...

MATHEWS – A neighborhood homeowners' association on Gwynn's Island in Mathews County is installing a biogenic reef off the coast of Cherry Point.
The reef is expected to become home to multiple species of marine life, including the bay's important...

Plump, ripe berries are a bird's best buffet when Old Man Winter makes nutritious insects a hard meal to find.
Faithfully-filled feeders are fantastic, too, because birds need the oil and fat from seeds and suet to help keep them warm.
Hopefully you...

About 80 miles off the Virginia coast, the Continental Shelf drops off from a depth of 600 feet to sink thousands of feet more toward the black bottom of the deep ocean.
The shelf stretches north to Canada, and carved all along its slope are great...

The battle between two economic juggernauts is about to begin — and Newport News, Hampton Roads and Virginia may be in danger of falling behind.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced earlier this week that he plans to add $65 million to the...

For one week last August, Hampton Roads followed the progress of a sickly young sei whale as she swam erratically in the rivers and creeks of the Chesapeake Bay before she finally died.
A necropsy found the whale had ingested a sharp, rigid shard from...

What could your business do with a machine or software app that could come up with better informed solutions than you?
While "big data" has become an industry buzzword lately, NASA Langley Research Center has been dealing with it for decades,...

Twenty years from now, will Virginia's coast be dotted with oil rigs or wind turbines?
Or both?
As factions face off over how best to generate energy and jobs in the coming decades, the Washington-based global conservation group Oceana released a new...

When geologists study the history of the Chesapeake Bay or other coastal environments, sometimes they go deep. Literally. Sometimes hundreds of feet deep.
They don't plumb the murky depths of the water itself, but the soft subsurface lying beneath.
...

About a month after his corruption conviction, former Gov. Bob McDonnell paid a quiet visit to the home of an old friend.
McDonnell and Liz Reiley had seen each other just once since middle school, yet their emotions poured out as he consoled her over...

March 2009: Star Scientific lets Bob McDonnell's gubernatorial campaign use its jet (leased to it by company chief executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr.) for two trips, together worth more than $10,800.October 2009: Star lets McDonnell use its plane two more...

What if there were a way to take the guesswork out of dieting? If you could pinpoint exactly how many calories you need to maintain a healthy weight? What if you discovered you could eat more in order to lose pounds?
Health professionals at Riverside...

UPDATE: The online report gave information that the proposed 757 Angels network would take 2 percent equity ownership in presenting companies funded by at least one member. Paul Hirschbiel, study co-chair, said this is no longer being considered.
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